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  • New Stuff

    ZINES!
    If I Could Live in Hope – Sexual Abuse and Survival by Kisha Hope $3.00
    Mountain Wilds by  Jay Krevens $6.00 – Jay moved to the Portland and just sent us some new scenic love of misty lore and cabin crafts, looming, owling, bear worship and astral travails. Accordian folded booklet has crafts on one side and mountainscape panorama on the reverse. -EF
    Fashionable Activism #1 Hardcore Punk Fanzine by Kevin McCaughey $2.00
    Birdsong #14 $6.00 – The “Anew” issue of this hearty, arty, micropressed, silkscreenized zine.

    Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock #3 A Twilight Teeter Into Organic Esoterics $3.00
    Judas Goat Quarterly #48 by Grant Schreiber $1.50
    Public Collectors Paper Blog     – Feeling Emotion in Everyday Life  by Marc Fischer (Temporary Services) There are many types of libraries in the world but none quite like this one.
    Parfait #4 Style Sheet fall 10 by Emily $2.00
    You’re An Angel You lil Devil #4 by Randy Robbins $2.00
    Narcolepsy Press Review #6 $2.00
    We’ll Never Have Paris vol 7 Win 10 Modern Fire $4.00
    Basic Paper Airplane #4 by Joshua $3.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Catalogue de Boulons by Julie Doucet (Mille Putois) $5.00 – 3-color silkscreened artist portfolio. A circus of boulons in all shapes and functions harnessed by Doucet’s legendary homebrew design sensibility. En francais.


    1 800 Mice #5 by Matthew Thurber (Picturebox) $6.00 – Brilliant and brimming with absurdist sex, escalating mayhem and dithering dimensional personalities.
    Rabid Rabbit #12 Goes to Hell $6.00

    Right Thing The Wrong Way: The Story of Highwater Books by Greg Cook and Tom Spurgeon (Bodega) $10.00 – The Catalog to Right Thing The Wrong Way art exhibit at the Fourth Wall Project in Boston MA. This oral history includes work and words by the core artists involved in the development of Highwater Books (Brain Ralph, Megan Kelso, Ron Rege, Jordan Crane, Greg Cook, Jef Czekaj, Marc Bell, Kurt Wolfgang).
    Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00

    Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore (Boom) $3.99
    World War 3 Illustrated #41 30th Anniversary Issue $7.00
    Eyeball Comix #2 $7.00 – Carved up, bezerker, infected-wound style comics mayhem from Britain. High-Grade Low-Grade shit. -EF

    Three Stories by Lisa Cline $3.00
    Bubblegum Party by Lee Bretschneider $4.00
    Poseur #4 by Nat Hoonsan $3.00
    Robbie and Bobby #1 A Comic Primer by Jason Poland $5.00
    Candy Gang #4 Dream Nights by Chet Pickens $4.00
    Hoyo de Gusano #1 by Ines Estrada $8.00
    How To Be Lolita     by Jojo $3.00 – Super cute fashion guide. Hint: Dressing Lolita involves lots of bows!
    Takes One to Know One: Douche Bags – A Love Story by Jordan A. Fu $3.00 – Woah, Jordan, that guy’s an asshole.
    Using A Multisensory Environment $8.00
    Kim Gee Comics #1 by Kim Gee $5.00
    Dewey Decimal System Is Decadent and Depraved A 24 Hour Comic by Bill Volk $2.00
    Only Skin #6 by Sean Ford $5.00
    Trigger #2 by Mike Bertino (Revival House) $5.00 – After doing three stories in three styles in the last issue, Bertino does three wildly different narratives here with a more unified look, like he’s been pinning stuff down. A lot of the characters are hapless assholes and it makes me think of what that means for the structure of the stories and the title “Trigger” itself…as in, it’s a comic about the grating destructive aspects but managed with subtlety and craft. The drawing skillz certainly pay the bills and seeing #1 and #2 together is making me think I do like reading about jerks. The plotlines are a Vermilean absurdity of hellbent talking pants, a continuation of the Huizengian suburban snark story of a newbie high school teacher and an outer space colonization story that pulls a little from Matthew Thurber and a lot from Star Trek. -EF

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    This Train an Artists Journal by Tony Fitzpatrick (Firecat Press) $40.00 – Wonderful new print book with the work of the local artist Tony Fitzpatrick.
    Photobooth: The Art of the Automatic Portrait by Raynal Pellicer (Abrams) $35.00 – Edited by the author of Mug Shots, the book featuring celebrity mug shots. Come to Quimby’s for the book Photobooth. Stay to use ours!
    Mascots by Ray Fenwick (Fantagraphics) $22.99
    Animal Love Summer by Marion Peck (Last Gasp) $29.95 – Surreal and cute weirdness.
    Juxtapoz Erotica (Gingko) $29.95 – Another addition to the popular Juxtapoz series of art books. This time it’s sexy!
    Barry McGee Damiani DFW THR by Barry McGee (Alleged) $49.95 – New work from this popular lowbow artist.
    Cathexis by Mark McCoy (Teenage Teardrops) $20.00 – Chemical Flesh Fog Photography.

    Concrete Messages: Street Art on the Israeli Plaestinian Separation Barrier by var. (Dokument) $29.95
    Rockin It Suckers: New York Citys Most Wanted Graffiti Vandals by var. (Dokument) $29.95
    Graffiti Coloring Book 2 Characters by Jacob Kimvall $9.95
    Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X to 197X: M+M Books No 1 ed. by var. (Actar) $54.95

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    New Character Parade by Johnny Ryan (Pigeon) $12.00 – 120 full-page strips starring 120 ridiculously clever characters including: Stink Saw, Mammuel Clemens, Judge Judy Dredd, Tron of Finland, Sherlock Homeless, Metaliban, Shark Fluffer, Sir Oreo Monocle, The Erotic Art Collecting Squirrel, and Lesbian Spock. New Character Parade is Ryan’s pièce de résistance, shamefully funny!
    Drew Friedmans Sideshow Freaks by Drew Friedman (Blast) $19.95
    Single Match by Oji Suzuki (D+Q) $24.95

    FICTION!
    Hungry Rats by Connor Coyne $16.00 – A teenage girl with a fear of rats tracks a serial killer named the Rat Man. Don’t miss Connor’s event here at Quimby’s on 2/15!
    Forgery by Amira Hanafi (Green Lantern Press) $20.00
    Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse by Lonely Christopher (Akashic) $15.95
    Tiny Wife by Andrew Kaufman (Madras Press) $8.00 – “A thief charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but he does not ask for money; what he asks for, instead, is the object of greatest significance currently in the possession of each patron. The thief then leaves, and the patrons all survive, but strange things soon begin to happen to them: One survivor’s tattoo jumps off her ankle and chases her around; another wakes up to find that she’s made of candy; and Stacey Hinterland discovers that she’s shrinking, incrementally, a little every day, and nothing that her husband or son do can reverse the process. The Tiny Wife is a fable about losing yourself in circumstances and finding yourself in the the love of another.”


    Moors by Ben Marcus (Madras Press) $7.00
    Peter and Max: A Fables Novel by var. (Vertigo) $14.99 – Now in soft cover. Find it in with the graphic novels even though it’s a novel. It’s a companion to the Fables series.
    Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean (Harper) $10.50 – Now in soft cover.

    MAGAZINES!
    Tattoo Society #25 $7.99
    Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11 $4.00
    Hi Fructose #18 $6.95
    Capricious #11 $17.00
    2600 Hacker Quarterly vol 27 #4 $6.25
    Fortean Times #270 Feb 11 $11.99
    Gothic Beauty #32 $5.95
    Treating Yourself #26 $7.99
    Boneshaker Magazine #3 $8.00
    Mojo #207 Feb 11 $9.99
    In These Times Jan 11 $3.50
    Yeti #10 (Yeti Publishing) $11.95 – Everything is Terrible, interviews with Jacuzzi Boys and Robert Scott of the Bats, a fiberoptic anatomy lesson from Pavel Tchelitchew, some inky Nick Gazin spot illustrations, a bony brill mickey mouse zine by Cassie Ramone and a drop-dead gorge Memphis Elvis photo portfolio by Ted Barron. Comes with CD.


    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    McSweeneys #36 $26.00
    Make Chicago Literary Magazine #10 Fall Win 10 At Play $12.00
    The Believer #77 Jan 11 $8.00
    Journal of Ordinary Thought Fall 10 $10.00
    Six By Six #22 You Have a Bone (Ugly Duckling Press) $5.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (RH) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance by Jason Hribal (AK) $15.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Just Kids by Patti Smith (Ecco) $16.00 – Now in soft cover.
    Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk by var. (Jawbone) $19.95

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead by var. (Plexus) $24.95
    Zombie Spaceship Wasteland HC by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Hilarious words from this articulate and witty comedian.
    Zombies History of the United States from the Massacre at Plymouth Rock… by Dr. Worm Miller (Ulysses) $13.95 – If Howard Zinn was a member of the undead, he would have written this book.
    Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore by Gary A. David (Adv Unl) $19.95
    Cosmic Ships, Truth and Lies About UFOs: Other Humanities and Our Future by  Samael Aun Weor (Glorian) $12.95
    Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms by Shade Rupe (Headpress) $27.95 – 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years conducted by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Interviews with the smaller half of Penn & Teller, Divine, Crispin Glover, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and more.
    Nomad Codes Adventures in Modern Esoterica by Erik Davis (Yeti Publishing) $17.95 – “Erik Davis explores the codes (spiritual, cultural and embodied) people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world, from Asian religious traditions and West African trickster gods to Western occult and esoteric lore, to media technology and psychedelic science. Whether his subject is transvestite Burmese spirit mediums or Ufology, tripster king Terence McKenna or dub maestro Lee Perry, Davis writes with keen yet skeptical sympathy, intellectual subtlety and wit, and unbridled curiosity.”


    SEX & SEXY!
    Teens At Play #4 by Rebecca (Eros) $4.95
    I Like to Watch: Gay Erotic Stories by Christopher Pierce (Cleis) $14.95
    Love In Abundance: A Counselors Advice on Open Relationships by Kathy Labriola (Greenery) $15.95
    OP Original Plumbing Trans Male Quarterly #5 The Fashion Issue $8.00


    OTHER STUFF!
    2011 Full Metal Rabbit Calendar by Leif Goldberg $24.00 – The annual 12-month 4-color animal of silkscreen ingenuity from Chief Color Doctor and Acting Administrator of the Word Swamp, Leif Goldberg has arrived!

  • Weekly Top 10

    Thanks to everybody who came out for the Mike White event on 12/13/10, talking about  Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection!
    And here’s this week’s top 10 (well, technically, last week, if you want to know the truth, but we post it weekly, so you know, it’s the Weekly Top 10.):
    1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Yes! They are gone. But we do have some other 2011 planners in stock. Stop in and see what we’ve got.
    2. Spotting Dee by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00 – A beautiful comic!
    3. Is It THE FUTURE Yet? by Corinne Mucha $3.00 – What does the future hold for you? This mini-comic was made ‘specially for Quimby’s!
    4. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt (Scribner) $24.00 – Yes! Hilarious essays from this comedian.
    5. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and more!
    6. Cometbus #50 by Aaron Cometbus $2.00
    7. Baba Yaga and the Wolf by Tin Can Forest (Koyama Press) $15.00 – Visually, Baba Yaga and the Wolf is like getting lost deep in the woods as the sun is going down – everything gets extra shadowy and sinister and the pine needles get tangled into dense swirls of threatning demons and implied curses. In contrast, the language is vivid, visceral and crisp, evoking grisly and twisted Eastern European folk lore recounted with passion around a campfire or hearth. The two play nicely off each other, the restraint of the illustrations acting as a springboard for the imagination to conjur the satanic Black Forest chaos hiding in the bushes. -EF
    8.Crickets #3: Sex Morons by Sammy Harkham $8.00
    9. Acme Novelty Library #20: Lint by Chris Ware (Drawn and Quarterly) $23.95
    10. Maximumrocknroll #332 Jan 11

  • Weekly Top 10 & Steven Blush Pics

    If you missed Steven Blush talking about the 2nd edition of his book American Hardcore A Tribal History, then you missed the punk rock professor at his best! We only have a few signed copies left in the store, so you better rush here and get it. Pictures below!

    Here’s the top bestsellers from last week:

    1. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00
    2. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Franceschini, Tucker and Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50
    3. Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
    4 Snow Yak Show by Mark Ryden (Porterhouse/Last Gasp) $28.00 – What’s Abe Lincoln doing in the Snow Cave of the Ice Princess anyway?
    5. X’ed Out by Charles Burns (Pantheon) $19.95 – Ever wonder what would happen if Charles Burns took over drawing TinTin? Today’s your lucky day, punk. You like eggs, don’t you?
    6. Big Takeover #67 $5.99
    7. Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
    8. Who Will Comfort Toffle: A Tale of Moomin Valley by Tove Jansson (Drawn & Quarterly) $16.95
    9. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.
    10. Doris #27 by Cindy Crabb $2.50

  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Slingshot Small Organizer $6.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    2. Slingshot Large Organizer $12.00

    3. Acme Novelty Library #20 Lint (D&Q) $23.95 – A completely wrenching tale of Jordan Lint’s awful life, rendered with Ware’s perfectly rendered tangential velocities that vault us back and forth through memory, fixation, anticipation and communication.

    4. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Abel, Madden and Gaiman (HM) $23.00

    5. The Unsinkable Walker Bean by Aaron Renier (First Second) $13.99 – Does it sound cheesy if I say this book is perfect for kids age 5 to 105? Cause it really is!  The Unsinkable Walker Bean is an unstoppable, rollicking high seas adventure full of codes, inventions, antediluvian intrigues and funny names. There’s this “pure joy of drawing” in Aaron’s work which loads the panels with sly little details and charming gestures -but nothing feels superfulous- even the silliest elements weave themselves into the plot. The story itself, about returning a cursed skull to two giant sea-hag sisters, champions scrapper ingenuity, resourcefulness and teamwork in a way that’s never heavy-handed, it’s just plain cool. Refreshing in a similar way is how Walker Bean’s world escapes simple hero vs. villain dichotomies, giving every character a heart to the point that you’ll even find the fierce, giant mer-witches endearing. The exceptional storytelling is emphasized by Alec Longstreth’s (Phase 7) beautiful color work full of crisp ocean blues, kelp-y ochres and my favorite sorts of pale, sea-sick greens. The book is also completely and solidly kid-friendly and that’s a big part of it’s magic: reading it as an adult stirs up all the youthful thrills and adventures of creative problem-solving. SO GOOD! -EF

    6. Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilsen (D&Q) $7.95 – The most gorgeous, most finalest one… the Big Questions end times is disruptive, surreal and poetic. Nilsen’s draughtmanship is pure and stunning, where disarmingly simple forms are made perfectly right. If you’ve been keeping time with this series, you’ll certainly be excited by this chapter, and if you’re just catching up, you’ll be dazzled by this near-religious, cryptic conclusions you’ll be catching here. -EF

    7. Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00 – Writing the book on learning as art and the art of learning: Proximity #8 comes from all angles, focuses, builds, supports. Weighing in at 232 pages, this volume does an exceptional job with a wide variety of profiles, interviews and portfolios and essays, staying both solidly local and vitally connected, you’d be hard pressed to find a smarter art magazine. Contributors include: Eve Ewing, Christa Donner, Chris Kennedy and Cassie Thornton, Michelle Grabner, Antonio Collados and Javier Rodrigo, Michael Piazza, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Lavie Raven, Lisa Junkin, Jazmen McKinnor, Louise Dreier, Elizabeth Knafo, Caroline Liebman, Alexander Keefe, Daniel Fuller, Dara Greenwald, Jesse Senechal, Rebecca Zorach, Jorge Lucero, Huong Ngo, Paul Mack, Andrew Oesch, InCUBATE, Noah Berlatsky, Sara Black and John Preus, Katie Hargrave, Susannah Kite Strang, Emmy Bright, Zach Cahill, Chris Cronin, Bert Stabler, Erin Elder, and Paul Sargent.

    8 Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris & Ian Falconer (LB) $21.99

    9. Celebrate Peoples History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution by Josh MacPhee (Feminist Press) $24.95 – A beautiful and inspiring book collecting the Justseeds Celebrate Peoples History Posters to date, overwhelming and fantastic! -EF

    10. Manifesti of Radical Literature by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Pressing Concern) $8.00 – This pocket-sized zine is a great introduction to the work of Anne Elizabeth Moore. The Manifesti of Radical Literaure condenses many ideas Moore has previously explored in other works–her critique of culture jamming, copyright laws, advertising, and why everyone should seriously consider self-publishing their own work. What saves this new 50-paged effort from feeling redundant is Moore’s charming sense of humor. Grab a copy for yourself and another one to leave at your local library.

  • New Stuff This Week

    Holiday shopping is in full swing now, but we still set aside a few minutes to tell you about the 60-some new items we got in this week. A new Big Questions from Anders Nilsen for your arty sibling, a new Paul Koob comic about cheese for those who love all things food, and a sexy comic for your ninja nympho roommate. Enjoy!

    ZINES!
    Adderall Photo Zine – Unlimited Edition by TR Ericsson $5.00
    Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker and Josh Doster $6.00
    Shithead 3 by Josh Doster $20.00
    American Gun Culture Report #3.1 Sum 08 ($3.00) and American Gun Culture Report #4.1 Win Spr 09 ($3.50)
    Letters From the Bottom of the World Sum 10 $.75
    Recinerated Nov 10 Written in Reverse $2.50
    Meat #2 by Adrian Lourie $20.00
    Caboose #7: Britney Spears 101 by Liz Mason $10.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    A B Cheese by Paul Koob $10.00 – Remember Hamster Man? Well, Paul Koob is back! And this time it’s a clever and cute artist book-comic-zine thing about a gazillion different types of cheese. And the alphabet! Perfect for all cheese-a-philes. Delcious!
    Big Questions #15 The Sweet Taste of Victory by Anders Nilen (D&Q) $7.95
    Seraph Manifesto vol 1 #3 by M. Collett by Nick Jones $3.00
    Cage #1 by Max Folsom $5.00
    Thank You NASA #1 Music Recording Comic by Simon Hunt $4.00
    Where Were You Last Night by Elizabeth Valasco  $3.00
    Rex Comic by Hannah Ayers $2.00
    Comics by Nik Havert: Sun and Moon (with Sean Russell) $3.00, Salem AZ #1 Ltd Ed (with Paul Schultz) $5.00 etc.
    Simon LeFag Gay Detective #1 the Case of the Used Condoms by Dave $1.00
    Ninja Girl by Bonesteel $5.00
    Closed Caption Comics #9 $20.00
    Motte and Bailey by Krystal DiFronzo $4.00

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    L’image Obscene: The Obscene Image Parisian Hospital Break Room Graffiti by ed. by Gilles Tondini (MBP) $34.95
    Graphics Alive vol 2 (Viction:ary) $39.95
    How to Disappear by Moki (Gingko) $29.95
    Mayday: The Art of Shepard Fairey (Gingko) $29.95 – Yes, he does other things besides Obama and Andre the Giant.

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Madwoman of the Sacred Heart by Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids) $29.95
    Motel Art Improvement Service by Jason Little (Dark Horse) $19.99
    Glamazonia The Uncannny Super Tranny ed. by Justin Hall (Northwest) $24.99

    MAGAZINES!
    Juxtapoz #119 Dec 10 $5.99
    Bizarre #170 Dec 10 $10.50
    As Loud As Possible #1 $9.00
    Flaunt #112 $8.95
    Oakazine #5 $15.00
    Wallpaper Jan 11 $9.50
    Shots #110 Win 10 $6.50
    Paper Win 10 11 $4.00
    BlackBook #81 Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.50
    Hyphen #22 Win 10 $4.95
    Wire #322 Dec 10 $10.99
    Signal to Noise #60 Win 11 $4.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    First Line vol 12 #4 #3.00
    Annalemma #7 $15.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Agony of Power by Jean Baudrillard (Semiotext(e)) $12.95

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Thelonious Monk SC the Life and Times of an American Original by Robin DG Kelley (Free Press) $18.00

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS!
    Ticking is the Bomb SC by Nick Flynn (Norton) $14.95

    SEX & SEXY!
    Tentacle Love #1 by Nik Havert and Philo $5.00
    Ninja Nympho Roommate #1 by Nik Havert and Xavier $5.00

  • Top 10 This Week

    1. Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – All-Gaylord-All-Phoenix-All-In-One, Dr. Bronner’s Style.

    2. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized!

    3. 100 Posters 134 Squirrels, Revised & Updated by Jay Ryan (Akashic) $22.95 – 100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS showcases one of underground poster art’s most prolific and talented practitioners. Featuring an all-new interview with Ryan and an introduction by Chicago Tribune rock critic Greg Kot, and framed by essays from underground luminaries–recording engineer and Shellac guitarist Steve Albini, graphic design iconoclast Art Chantry, and distinguished art and design historian Debra Parr–100 POSTERS 134 SQUIRRELS offers a unique look into Ryan’s approach to poster art.

    4. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot) $6.00

    5. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    6. Bust Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.99

    7. Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch & Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00 – They don’t make ’em like they used to, that’s for certain. Papa Zettwoch takes us on an exacting tour of life in midcentury Louisville telephone operations, in particular the oracle operators who fiddled with antiquated 8-board switchpanels. Dan lovingly arts up the exacting craft, attention to detail and squirrely diagnostic techniques that existed before everything got replaced with plastic and no one could remember a phone number. -EFhttps://www.quimbys.com/images/teltales1.jpg

    8. Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker etc. (Chronicle) $27.50 – “With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate a new wave of modern agrarians.”

    9. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00

    10. Best American Comics HC 2010 ed. by Jessica Abel, Matt Madden & Neil Gaiman (HM) $23.00

  • New Stuff This Week

    Fabulous new things available this week including new issues of Proximity and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, 33 1/3 series books about Radiohead’s Kid A and Slint’s Spiderland, outer limits books about extraterrestrials and Atlantis, and more!

    ZINES!
    Son of Bing Short Stories by Dan Gleason $2.00
    Spacenipple The Strange Retractions of Orbiting by Virginia Visker with help from Josh Doster $6.00 – Weirdo collage.
    Toucan #9 win 10 $3.00
    KerBloom #87 by ArtNoose $2.00
    I Want To Tell You About Some Events by Jarrett Mitchell $6.00
    When the Crash Meets Something Solid #3 A Shotgun Named Ambition by Gabrielle Congrave $3.00
    Rise and Fall: A Concertina of Life by Micah Lidberg (Adhouse) $16.00
    Letters I Will Never Send To You #6 The Longest August by Morgan Inez $3.00
    Yizkor by Amara Leipzig $6.00
    Robert Walser Literary Hero by Brian Allnutt $1.75
    Shiny Things on the Ground #1 by Brandt Schmitz $2.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    Banana Slug by Leslie Perrine $2.00
    Milk and Moo BY Yumi Sakugawa (Sparkplug) $5.00
    Study Group 12 #4 (Sparkplug) $20.00 – A great anthology with a ton of artists, edited by Zack Soto. Colorful stories and illustrations from T Edward Bak, Chris Cilla, Farel Dalrymple, Vanessa Davis, Amy Kuttab, Blaise Larmee, Tom Neely and more!Tel Tales #1 Cut Lines and Intricate Minds by Don Toots Zettwoch and Dan Zettwoch (Sparkplug) $3.00
    Pood #2 $4.00
    Fathers and Wolves #1 by Sophie Goldstein $4.00
    Spotting Deer by Michael DeForge (Koyama) $5.00
    C by Lizz Hickey $5.00
    Taffy Hips #8 by Zara Messano by Gil Gentile $8.00

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Bigfoot by Pascal Girard (D&Q) $19.95
    Unexplored Worlds Steve Ditko Archives vol 2 (Fantagraphics) $39.99
    Graphic Cosmogony: 24 Artists Take on 7 Pages to Tell Their Tales of the Creation (Adhouse) $38.00
    Too Much Crazy by Tom Tomorrow (Soft Skull) $14.95

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Singing To the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Stephan V Beyer (UofNM) $29.99 – Planning a trip?

    FICTION!
    Fiction at Work Biannual Report (Green Lantern)  $10.00
    Fever Chart by Bill Cotter (McSweeney’s) $14.00 – Now in soft cover.

    MAGAZINES!
    Proximity #8 Education As Art $12.00
    Yeti #10 $11.95
    Tokion Factory Art of Beauty Issue $3.99
    High Times Feb 11 $5.99
    In These Times Dec 10 $3.50
    Progressive Dec 10 Jan 11 $4.95
    Big Takeover #67 $5.99
    Shindig vol 2 #19 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
    Sneaker Freaker #19 $13.99
    RFD #144 $9.95

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet #26 Dec 10 $5.00

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Essential Works of Lenin: What Is to be Done and Other Writings (Dover) $12.95
    Signs of Change Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now – Exit Art (Serpents Tale) by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee $28.95
    Outsider: My Quest for Justice by Adam Delgado $10.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Cheetah Chrome A Dead Boys Tale from the Front Lines of Punk Rock by Cheetah Chrome (Voyageur) $24.00
    White Bicycles Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd (Serpents Tale) $14.95
    I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Punk Rock Family Memoir by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil (Touchstone) $15.99 – Now in soft cover.
    Kraftwerk Music Non Stop by Sean Albiez and David Pattie (Continuum) $24.95
    33 1/2 Series: Slint’s Spiderland by Scott Tennent (Continuum) $12.95
    33 1/2 Series: Radiohead’s Kid A by Marvin Lin (Continuum) $12.95

    MAYHEM, MISCELLANY & OUTER LIMITS
    Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions and Occult Revelations by Joscelyn Godwin (Inner Traditions) $19.95
    Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and The Coming New Race by Len Kasten (Bear) $18.00
    Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (U of NM) $34.95 – Back in stock!
    Bento Bestiary by Ben Newman and Scott Donsaldson (Adhouse) $20.00
    My Year of Flops: One Mans Journey Deep Into the Heart of Cinematic Failure by Nathan Rabin (S&S) $15.00
    Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia (S&S) $24.00

    OTHER STUFF!
    30 Zombie Temporary Tattoos by Mitch O’Connell (Chronicle) $9.95
    LaPorte Indiana DVD $20.00 – You loved the book. Now enjoy the movie!
    Underground Multiplex Mix DVD by Joseph Lewis $15.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Slingshot 2011 Large Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $12.00 – Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. Spiral-bound.

    2. Brilliant Mistake #2 by Carrie $1.00 – Carrie’s second issue lays it bare, rips it raw, burns, shreds and begins to rebuild a devastated heart. Reading Brilliant Mistake #2 cuts to the chase and takes you right there – that place of the furious senselessness of love in tatters – and through reading it you sort out your own wreckage. Trial by fire, and feeling it hard. -EF

    3. Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99

    4. Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
    5. Slingshot 2011 Pocket Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 Get your rad self organized! Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list. All in perfect-bound pocket-size form.

    6. Brilliant Mistake #1 by Carrie $1.00 – What a gem of a debut zine! Beautifully quilted together from bits of a questioning heart, Brilliant Mistake #1 pares down the aches of the social games we play. -EF

    7. Peters Muscle by Michael Deforge $1.00 – More sick sauce from DeForge, this round is a Freudian take on what gets that Spider Sense a-tingling. -EF

    8. We Should: A Selective Guide to Chicago By Laura Szumowski $7.95
    9. Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00 – More boners, more pizza, more roommates, more stoney-baloney plus also some barfing. I’m not going to tell you twice: zit’s awesome. -EF

    10. I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt  (Pigeon Press) $6.95

  • New Stuff This Week

    Ooo la la! So much cool stuff we’re bursting out of our lederhosen. A new issue of Wholphin, Show Me the Money, new comics from Lisa Hanawalt and Matt Furie, the Gaylord Phoenix graphic novel, the new Achewood book and more! Details below.

    ZINES!
    Show Me The Money #33 $2.50 – Still going!
    So Me and You Are Reading This Zine #3 and You’re All Like Whoa This Is Great by Justin Michael Valmassoi $3.00
    Lean Mean Teen Machine #1  $1.00 – A zine by local preteens!
    School #2 Women and Japanese Culture $12.00
    Cryptozoology: A Pragmatists Guide $6.00 – The cutest crptozoology guide you’ll ever read.
    Christmas Dream by C. Uphues $1.00
    Life During Wartime #9 CD Audio Zine: The True Story of Finding a Lost Velvet Underground Acetate At A Yard Sale $5.00
    Tales of the Unexplained by Aaron Manczyk $4.00

    COMICS & MINICOMICS!
    I Want You #2 by Lisa Hanawalt (Pigeon Press) $6.95
    Boys Club #4 by Matt Furie (Pigeon Press) $6.00
    Elf World vol 2 #1 ed. by Francois Vigneault (Family Style) $6.00 – With comics from Grant Reynolds, Alec Longstreth, Dash Shaw, Sammy Harkham and more!
    It’s a Wonderful Strife by Nick Drnaso $5.00
    RASL #9 by Jeff Smith $3.50
    I Don’t Understand Farming #4 $.75
    I Heart Cereal by Tony Rabit $1.00
    Chili Dog Dad by Hazel Newlevant $4.00
    Yellow Comics #1 by Erik Schneider $2.00
    Malaise Trap by Jack Bracken and Reid Psaltis $3.00
    Carry On Carrion – A Crow Funeral by Reid Psaltis $4.00
    Cycling: A Guide to Menstruation by Laura Szumowski $12.95 – Are you there, God? It’s me, a cool comic about getting my period.
    Chronicles of Edgebright and Leofwyn #2 by Jim Terry $3.00
    Lets Fuck Like We Haven’t Been Married For the Last 40 Years by Aaron Manczyk $3.00 – Have you seen that documentary The Lifestyle? This book is sorta a lot like that movie, only less potluck dinners. -EF

    GRAPHIC NOVELS & TRADE PAPERBACKS!
    Gaylord Phoenix by Edie Fake (Secret Acres) $17.95 – By or Edie! Maybe if yer nice he’ll sign it for you if he’s working. Celebrate the release of it here at Quimby’s on 12/9 and 7pm!
    Achewood vol 3 A Home For Scared People by Chris Onstad (Dark Horse) $16.99
    Rise of the American Comics Artist Creators and Contexts by Williams and Lyons (U of Miss) $28.00
    Fables vol 14 Witches by Bill Willingham etc. (Vertigo) $17.99

    ART & DESIGN BOOKS!
    Ten x Ten: A Collaboration Between Chicago Bands and Printmakers (Spudnik Press/Homeroom) $30.00 – A suite of ten fine art prints by Chicago artists to accompany ten songs of exclusive tracks by Chicago bands. Includes 10″ x 10″, 3-color prints and a super special secret code to download the songs. Songs by Locks, Max Alexander, The Late Model Races, Strictly Jug Nuts, Sky Event, Netherfriends, Nones, Christine Kick and Jason Adasiewicz. Prints by Dee Clements, Sanya Glisic, Kathleen Judge, Angee Lennard, Onsmith, Colin Palombi, Joey Potts, Grant Reynolds, Tom Smith and Sonnenzimmer. Perhaps this image featuring some of the art will wet yer whistle?

    Fontology Free Fonts Source Book (Promo Press) $34.95
    Private Zone Sketchbook by Stu Mead $40.00

    DIY & CONSUMPTION!
    Soil Mates: Companion Planting For Your Vegetable Garden by Sara Alway (Quirk) $16.95

    FICTION!
    Tales of The Bagman – A New Pulp Hero In Old Chicago by BC Bell $21.95
    City of the Gods – Return of Quetzalcoatl by Patrick Garone $15.00

    MAGAZINES!
    Wax Poetics #44 Nov Dec 10 $9.99
    Mojo #206 Jan 11 $9.99
    Monocle vol 4 #39 Dec 10 Jan 11 $10.00
    Fortean Times #269 Jan 11 $11.99

    LITERARY JOURNALS & CHAP BOOKS!
    10 Love Poems by Jason Sturner $5.00

    CHILDRENS BOOKS!
    Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon Coloring Book by Jacinta Bunnell and Nathaniel Kusinitz (PM Press) $10.00
    Struwwelpeter Or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffman (Pavilion) $14.99 – Wanna give your kid some nightmares? Here’s your chance.

    POLTICS & REVOLUTION!
    Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People Places and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franceschini, Daniel Tucker and Anne Hamersky (Chronicle) $27.50 – Dan Tucker of local free newspaper AREA and friends.
    Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell (Free Press) $27.00
    Blowing Smoke: Why The Right Keeps Serving up Whack Job Fantasies About The Plot by Michael Wolraich (Da Capo) $25.00

    MUSIC BOOKS!
    Mosh Potatoes: Recipes Anecdotes and Mayhem From the Heavyweights of Heavy Metal by Steve Seabury (AtriA) $15.00 – Recipes from Zakk Wylde, Lemmy, Guns & Roses, Lamb of God, Moth Eater, Shadows Fall, Anthrax, Testament, Overkill, Pantera and more. Hilarious and delicious. With an introduction by Chef Luke Tobias from Kumas’s Corner here in Chicago!

    MAYHEM & MISCELLANY!
    Neo Bohemia: Art and Commerce In the Postindustrial City Second Edition by Richard Lloyd (Routledge) $34.95 – About Wicker Park! Now with updated info. Maybe pair it with the Hipster Mustache ($4.00)and What Was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation ($10.00). Now with more skinny jeans.

    OTHER STUFF!
    Wholphin #12 DVD $19.95
    Stinckers 3 Pack Stickers by World Famous Cartoonists $3.00 – Stickers by Johnny Ryan, Esther Pearl Watson, MATS!? and more.
    Typewriter Animals Calendar 2011 by Nathan Veach $6.00
    2011 Never Sleeping Calendar Poster Antler Boy by Ben Chlapek $15.00
    Snake Goddess Print by Ariyana Suvarnasuddhi $5.00
    Gift To Winter DVD: The Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective $10.00

  • Weekly Top 10

    1. Slingshot 2011 Small Organizer (Slingshot Collective) $6.00 – Your daily dose of peoples history, menstrual calendar, tips for dealing with the police, radical contact list…all in perfectbound pocketsize form.

    2. Endeavour 2011 Nikki McClure Calendar $16.00

    3. Maximumrocknroll #331 Dec 10 $4.00

    4. Diamond Comics #5, ed. by Jason Leivian (Floating World) $3.00 – Full color chaos. Stanley Lieber, Michael DeForge, Benjamin Marra, Cleon Peterson, Pete Toms, Panayiotis Terzis, Derek Ballard and a frantic cover by Skinner. You’ll probably cry if you miss this.

    Diamond Comics #5

    5. Gaylord Phoenix #5 by Edie Fake $4.00 – What do I have to say for myself? This is the pre-history-flashback issue of that homosexual birdman comic I draw. Try it, you just may like it- if you don’t, you know where to find me. -EF

    6. Boobs by Sam Sharpe $3.00

    7. Powr Mastrs #3 by CF (Picturebox) $18.00

    8. Picture This: The Near Sighted Monkey Book Learn How to Art with the Near Sighted by Lynda Barry (D&Q) $29.95 – Although I doubt this book needs any introduction, I’ll go ahead and quack a little about Lynda Barry’s exciting follow up to What It Is. These books are sort of a portable pair of life-coaches on the means and meaning in personal artistic process. Where Scott McCloud tries to crack open all the formal and technical elements of comics-making step-by-step in his “Understanding Comics” series, Lynda Barry is using rather sub-conscious processes to burrow deep into the intuitive realms of how and why content is created. It’s a pretty amorphous thing to get a handle on and Barry’s collaged approach reflects the subtleties of the fog while still assembling a book on “how to draw”. Picture This allows her to dig into the core of creating without being didactic or judgemental, writing the secret missing chapter to every “How to Draw Comics” book ever published. -EF

    9. Buildings & Bodies by Ryan Dodgson $10.00 – What would your friends look like if they were houses? What would your houses look like if they were your friends? Here’s a version of that being incredibly well-drawn and all taking place in Toronto!

    10. Giant Robot #68 $4.99